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Fast Forward Mideast Peace Talks Will Resume Next Week
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will resume peace talk in Jerusalem on Aug. 14, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday. “Negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians will be resuming Aug. 14 in Jerusalem and will be followed by a meeting in Jericho (in the West Bank),” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told a briefing. The…
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Fast Forward Israel Tycoon’s Huge Mining Deal With African Nation of Guinea in Doubt Over ‘Bribes’
Guinea could void BSG Resources’ (BSGR) mining permits if corruption investigations in the West African nation and the United States lead to convictions, the head of a committee tasked with reviewing mining deals said. BSGR, the mining arm of Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz’s business empire, is battling Guinea over the right to mine one of…
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Fast Forward 40% of White Americans Have Only White Friends
About 40 percent of white Americans and about 25 percent of non-white Americans are surrounded exclusively by friends of their own race, according to an ongoing Reuters/Ipsos poll. The figures highlight how segregated the United States remains in the wake of a debate on race sparked by last month’s acquittal of George Zimmerman in the…
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Fast Forward Jackie Robinson Statue in Brooklyn Marred By Swastika and Anti-Semitic Slurs
NEW YORK – Vandals defaced a statue of barrier-breaking baseball star Jackie Robinson in Brooklyn, scrawling a racial slur, a swastika and anti-Semitic language on the figure outside a minor league baseball park, police said on Wednesday. The hate crimes task force was investigating and no arrests had been made, a police spokeswoman said. The…
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Fast Forward Four IDF Soldiers Wounded in Blast on Lebanon-Israel Border
JERUSALEM – An explosion at the border with Lebanon wounded four Israeli soldiers on Wednesday, and the Lebanese Army said the troops were inside Lebanese territory when the blast occurred. The incident, in an area known for having land mines, did not appear to herald any surge in tension along a frontier that has been…
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Fast Forward 4 Israeli Soldiers Wounded in Blast Near Lebanese Border
Four Israeli soldiers were wounded on Wednesday in an explosion on the border with Lebanon, a military spokesman said. The troops were involved in “an activity near the border”, the spokesman said, without providing further details of the circumstances of the blast. They were taken to hospital. Israeli forces routinely patrol the frontier with Lebanon,…
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Fast Forward Dustin Hoffman Treated for Cancer
Actor Dustin Hoffman has undergone treatment for cancer, the Oscar-winner’s publicist confirmed on Tuesday. Hoffman’s publicist, Jodi Gottlieb, declined to say what kind of cancer or when the “Tootsie” star was diagnosed. The news was first reported by People Magazine, where Gottlieb said the cancer had been “detected early and he has been surgically cured.”…
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Fast Forward 55% of Israelis Say No Return to 1967 Borders
Most Israelis would oppose any peace deal with the Palestinians that involved withdrawing to pre-1967 ceasefire lines, even if landswaps were agreed to accommodate Jewish settlements, a poll showed on Tuesday. The survey by the liberal Israeli Democracy Institute (IDI) showed 65.6 percent of those questioned did not expect to see a deal in talks…
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